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Expulsion may refer to:

• Expulsion, in the Book of Genesis, refers to the decree of expulsion from the Garden of Eden issued by God against Adam and Eve after they ate from the forbidden Tree of Knowledge. However, the expulsion was not the consequence of eating the forbidden fruit. They were expelled from the Garden of Eden for the reason that, as says the Bible text, "He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live for ever." (Genesis 3:22). This is the first instance of Banishment in the Bible.

• Deportation, the expulsion of someone from a country, usually an illegal alien.
• Forced transfer of foreign or minority populations during or after (due to) a war, e.g. Armenian population in Turkey during the World War I; Polish, Lithuanian, Latvian, Moldavian etc. populations by the Germans or the Soviets from the areas occupied by them during the World War II; Chechen, Tatar etc. populations after the World War II in the Soviet Union; German populations from various countries in the Central-Eastern Europe after the World War II; Ukrainian population from eastern to western Poland in 1950; Croats, Muslims, Serbs etc. in the various areas of former Yugoslavia in the 1990-ies; etc. The term expulsion indicates condemnation of the events; an alternative term with a more neutral or even apologetic stance is population transfer; a stronger term is the modern ethnic cleansing.
• Genocide, which was a euphemistically called expulsion by the Germans during the World War II; The Nazis used this term to describe the forced deportation of Jews, Gypsys (Roma and Sinti), and other victims to death camps during the Holocaust.

• Expulsion (academia), in terms of a school or university, is defined as removing a student from the institution for violating rules or honor codes. See also rustication.
• Expulsion, in football (soccer) is used as a reference to a player being sent off the playing field, i.e. when given the red card.

• See also: Expulsion of Germans after World War II

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